COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been six new cases of COVID-19 and no recoveries, increasing the number of active cases to 47. One more person is hospitalized with the virus, and one remains in the ICU. There are 28 more county residents in mandatory quarantine today than yesterday, but no one is in precautionary quarantine. There has not been a death from COVID-19 in Columbia County since October 14.

With six positives out of 376 test results received, the positive percentage rate for today is 1.6 percent. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, is 1.2 percent--that is, 29 positives out of 2,411 test results.